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development of textual criticism

Sauppe in his Epistola Critica ad G. Hermannum had emphasized the diversity of transmissional situations and the difficulty or actual impossibility of classifying the manuscripts in all cases. In 1843 Lachmann’s pupil O. Jahn, in his edition of Persius, had repudiated the strict application of the genealogical method…